I used the old 160 drive in my parent's old XP machine... about 3 years ago... :-)

I'm thinking that we know that the 160 that came out of the TiVo works in that model, so if you could copy the stuff on it off to something else for the time being, you could restore to it and see if it works in the TiVo, and if it does, then that means good image, problem with Seagate in that model TiVo, or problem with Seagate period.

I'm going to use pdisk to re-initialize the partition info... maybe it became corrupt because I was restoring over a previous restore. Will post update when finished.

thanks!

Update.

After re-initializing the hard drive, I ran another restore with the image that you had posted. Same problem.

I then did a restore using the "supafly" image, and I got a bit further, I got to the next screen, Just a few minutes more... after that it reboots. I did do a kickstart 57, and that took about 10 minutes. Still no joy...

I have a 1 TB western digital WD10EADS drive that I can try. Also the original drive was a 250. My bad. My TivoHD had a 160 in it...

That 250 drive is long gone. I don't know where the pc that has the drive is... :-(

After doing a bit more research on tivocommunity.com, I just ordered the following drive from newegg. Western Digital AV-GP WD10EURS 1TB 64MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive. Maybe my Tivo is hating on Seagate all of the sudden...

After re-initializing the hard drive, I ran another restore with the image that you had posted. Same problem.

I then did a restore using the "supafly" image, and I got a bit further, I got to the next screen, Just a few minutes more... after that it reboots. I did do a kickstart 57, and that took about 10 minutes. Still no joy...

I have a 1 TB western digital WD10EADS drive that I can try. Also the original drive was a 250. My bad. My TivoHD had a 160 in it...

That 250 drive is long gone. I don't know where the pc that has the drive is... :-(

Yeah, I should have caught that wrong drive size. Speaking of different model S3s, I thought the supafly image was for the 652160 and maybe the 658000, but not the 648250?

Definitely try the EADS. It will work in a TiVo if everything else is right.

If there's something on there that needs saving you can run dd_rescue to Xerox it to the Seagate.

But run wdidle3 on the WD first to disable Intellipark.

The Welcome screen is built into the motherboard. If it gets to the just a few more minutes screen, that's coming off of the hard drive.

Will try the EADS drive tonight. Will post an update. I did buy a new power supply for it, thinking that was the problem. Now I thinking it's the image. The only reason I'm doing all this, is because this TiVo has a lifetime subscription.

Is there a way for be to console into the TiVo to see the boot sequence?

Is there a way for be to console into the TiVo to see the boot sequence?

On the Series 1s there was, and the serial port was conveniently located on the back.

But what you could see ended when the drive took over.

There is a serial port on the 648 motherboard, but you'll have to do a lot of searching and reading on "the other site" (which cannot be named here) to find out how to take advantage of it, and I don't know if it will get you what you want. You may need a prom modification first.

If you google TiVo Prom Day, you'll find links to the site.

Look for

TiVo Bluetooth Serial Console Adapter

to see a picture of where it is

page 3 of

The S3 Has Landed

has a post of the console boot output

There's another page there (I think) which discusses it more directly which I can't find right now, but if you search all of Omikron's posts you'll trip over it eventually.

Hi,
Did you succeed in getting your image, as I am after it also ( stuck at "just a few minutes more"

Hi!

No... I'm still stuck at that screen too. Still looking for a valid TCD648250B image... The supafly image that I found seems to also be corrupt. I can't restore it with the -p option. And at 98% mfsrestore fails..

I wasn't able to boot from either image. The furthest I got was Just a few minutes more, using the .tbk. And only after switching the boot partition to 6 and running fix swap.

Would you recommend I try something else?

thanks

Riten

Although I'm not totally convinced that it's not your motherboard or drive or power supply, I'm starting to suspect there's something wrong with the images I posted.

I PM'ed aymanme a couple of days ago to see if he'd send you a link to his image, and indicated I'd like the same, but haven't heard back.

Until and unless I actually get a 648 of my own to play with, my bag of tricks is pretty much empty.

You mentioned being able to get the "just a few more minutes screen"

The powering up screen is one the motherboard but the other one is on the drive, so that indicates the motherboard is able to talk to the drive.

Try whatever version of whatever image that got you that far again, but this time watch for the lights on the front to change somehow, probably about 60 seconds after the welcome screen pops up, and when you see it, hit pause for a second and then enter

58

and see if it'll do a green screen and fix itself.

If it does, you need to get it to the point of starting off in Guided Setup, pull the plug, and make a truncated image and let me know so I can get it from you.

Sounds like a similar issue I had with my series 2 a few years ago. After buying a unit on ebay for part, and thinking it was my power supply, I found that my power supply was just loose. So my lifetime has the power supply from the frankestein box, and I put my power supply in the frankenstein box and both work.

Sounds like a similar issue I had with my series 2 a few years ago. After buying a unit on ebay for part, and thinking it was my power supply, I found that my power supply was just loose. So my lifetime has the power supply from the frankestein box, and I put my power supply in the frankenstein box and both work.

I also thought it was a power supply issue as well. The reason is that some of the caps on the PS were alot bigger than they were supposed to be. So, i ordered a new one from weakness. After installing it, I still had the same problem. I ran kickstart 58, and got to a new screen, Installing updates... however, after it rebooted, it still wouldn't go past Just a few more minutes... I'm now looking on ebay for a cheap series 3 with a stock HD, so I can pull and through into my Tivo to see if there is something else wrong with it.

All this, because the unit has a lifetime subscription, that I already transferred once from my series 1... :-)

Tip of the hat to the contributors to this thread and to Unitron for providing the up-to-date image. My 652160 died a green death last week yet I was up and running shortly after unpacking the new hard drive thanks to all of you.

Another data point FWIW: I replaced a Hitachi Deskstar 1TB @7200 RPM born Oct 2007 (it seemed like a good idea at the time, which was Dec '07) with a WD15EARS. The Tivo HD is now almost completely silent and the temp has dropped from around 49 degrees C to 39C.

Tip of the hat to the contributors to this thread and to Unitron for providing the up-to-date image. My 652160 died a green death last week yet I was up and running shortly after unpacking the new hard drive thanks to all of you.

Another data point FWIW: I replaced a Hitachi Deskstar 1TB @7200 RPM born Oct 2007 (it seemed like a good idea at the time, which was Dec '07) with a WD15EARS. The Tivo HD is now almost completely silent and the temp has dropped from around 49 degrees C to 39C.

My series 2 suddenly died. The hard drive is not spinning up and it is not the power supply. Have checked this in my desk top. Definately not spinning up. No response at all. Can someone help me with an image. Please? Thanks so much everyone. I need my TIVO back.

My series 2 suddenly died. The hard drive is not spinning up and it is not the power supply. Have checked this in my desk top. Definately not spinning up. No response at all. Can someone help me with an image. Please? Thanks so much everyone. I need my TIVO back.

You don't have to download these to download the 540 ones, but I need help keeping them from being yanked for lack of activity. Once you download them you can erase them from your computer, but you'll have gained them another 3 months of life.

Then we can talk about you accepting an invite from me to open a dropbox account that'll give both of us extra free space (where stuff doesn't get pulled for lack of activity).

I don't have an OLED S3 on which to test them, I think one person has had success and another person still has the same problem they started out with, so let me know if they work or not.

I just registered to let you know that the winmfs image worked just fine for me just now when I put it on the original HD that came in the TCD648250B.

Somehow my disk got corrupted and it was showing in winmfs as not a tivo drive. I restored your .tbk image onto it and it worked fine after a single green screen to do somethings. It went right into guided setup -> Green Screen on first reboot for about 10-15 minutes or so rebooted -> Guided setup -> C&DE -> Guided Setup to working perfectly right now.

I did have a bad cap on the Power supply that did get replaced before I restored the image first however, so that might be an issue for the other person.